We should not shame native people who aren’t full blooded when many of our populations were annihilated to the point where we had to marry outside of our tribe just to continue on genetically. You can’t marry your cousin. And when 20,000 people are reduced to 400, we literally have to marry outside if we want to survive as a people.
We should not shame them for “only” having oral history about who they are, especially for southern tribes where the kkk was killing natives as much as anyone else. We had to hide our identity and information was often passed to kids on the down low, if at all. We were getting hunted so often that we sometimes married white people so that our children could simply LIVE.
And yes you may marry a Korean, whose people were forced to speak Japanese in school after being brutally colonized by them. Sound familiar? We understand each other. We must band together and create genetic diversity and celebrate that diversity. Purity concepts are a slippery slope. Don’t want to end up like the royal families who have married their own blood and aren’t all there in the head. Get that hybrid vigor 🙂
I stand by you sister Linda Black Elk and all those getting called out as “pretendians”. Shadí, Jaqueline, I have a lot of love for you sister, and this practice needs to stop. I wholeheartedly believe in your ability to refocus on important issues as you have in the past. Your passion and skills are greatly needed today and every day in many areas.
But today, and everyday, I stand by the oral history we carry passed down from our ancestors. We do not need to police who is Indian and who isn’t. The government is doing this to us already, we don’t need to do it to each other.
I have a Certificate of Indian Blood that says I’m 1/2 Diné. You know what else get certificates like that from (usually) white men? Dogs and horses.
The US Government created a political entity called the “Navajo Nation” and this entity has a law that anyone less than 1/8 pedigree is no longer Diné. This is a sick kind of colonial, entitled erasure of a people.
If I don’t marry a Diné man, my children will be 1/4. If they don’t marry a Diné, their children will be 1/8, and then their’s will be 1/16, or “not technically Diné”.
In this country, native people are only allowed to enroll in one tribe, even if they descend from multiple tribes. So if I were to marry a Lakota man for instance, my children would still be “1/4 indian” by these laws.
And then what would my great grandchildren have to “prove” their nativeness? They would have oral history as we always have.
The Catawba suffered extreme degradation and genocide, to the point where they are nearly gone. I repeat, genocide. But now the US Government doesn’t have to erase us. We will do it to each other. Let’s focus on the real task at hand: building our communities and supporting those who truly support them, such as Linda and many others.
At the same time, people who are European and native (like me) still carry white privilege and we may even carry some of our ancestors’ bad habits like exploiting things for our own gain. It would be good for us to be brave enough to examine this. We also receive different treatment from the world than our more melanated brothers and sisters. We need to place this privilege in complete service of native communities, not the other way around. We don’t share their experience and we never will. This is okay. We have our own experience to bring to the table and we bring helpful things from many directions. We don’t know their pain in the same way, however, and thus it is good to be humble as we claim our indigeneity. We can then work to build bridges based on patience, generosity and respect.
I stand by you sis and I honor indigenous oral history above government papers 🙏🏽❤️📄🗑
https://www.facebook.com/1573085966331988/posts/2354553481518562/

Air pollution is much worse than we thought

Ditching fossil fuels would pay for itself through clean air alone.

"Importantly, many of the benefits can be accessed in the near term. Right now, air pollution leads to almost 250,000 premature deaths a year in the US. Within a decade, aggressive decarbonization could reduce that toll by 40 percent; over 20 years, it could save around 1.4 million American lives that would otherwise be lost to air quality.

[...]

The air quality benefits arrive much sooner than the climate benefits. They are, at least for the next several decades, much larger. They can be secured without the cooperation of other countries. And, by generating an average of $700 billion a year in avoided health and labor costs, they will more than pay for the energy transition on their own. Climate change or no climate change, it’s worth ditching fossil fuels.

And if this is true in the US — which, after all, has comparatively clean air — it is true tenfold for countries like China and India, where air quality remains abysmal. A Lancet Commission study in 2017 found that in 2015, air pollution killed 1.81 million people in India and 1.58 million in China."

How to Make a Revolution from our favourite Starhawk: https://www.facebook.com/324715135867/posts/10157624889740868/?substory_index=0

How to Make a Revolution from our favourite Starhawk:

BE LIKE MUSHROOMS.

Spread your mycelial threads, underground, and connect them, out of sight.

Extrude them, extend them, link them, clamping one to another in a pattern with no center to destroy, no head to cut off.

Then exude.

Sweat out the revolutionary fervor that dissolves old structures, that breaks toxins apart.

Extend your reach, link root to root.

Trees feed their young through subterranean fungal webs. Be a conduit. Take in. Share.

Be like mushrooms, ephemeral, mostly invisible.
Pop up everywhere, overnight, and then disappear.

BUT ALSO BE LIKE TREES.

Grow slowly. Push up from below, when you’re ready.
Draw from deep sources, but also take in light.
Build structure. Flex and strengthen your fiber so when the storms hit, you can hold your ground.
Feed on light, on air and water. Grow.
Grow so tall that you can be seen from everywhere, a brave silhouette that shapes a new skyline.
And don’t grow alone…

From her book City of Refuge: the Sequel to the Fifth Sacred Thing

https://www.facebook.com/324715135867/posts/10157624889740868/?substory_index=0

from TreeTV / N2K Need to Know:

' This short film is part of 8 short, testimonial films, on the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois.) The Iroquois are embarking on an historic project about the 500-year history of the Iroquois, their relationship with Europe and America and their prophesies that, if heard, can help us navigate the oncoming changes due to climate change. This series of short films is done via their testimony, and creates the space for the Iroquois to tell their story as they strive to uphold the traditions and the legacy of their people while also protecting the central tenents of their people and their relationship and care for the Earth. '

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iVziGHPhVw

' This series was created by Tree Media in collaboration with Oren Lyons, Sid Hill and the Haudenosaunee. This series was created with the support of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and with the support of Executive Producer Oliver Stanton. For more information: http://www.digitalwampum.org and http://www.treemedia.com '

“Here is an incomplete list of things I left unfinished last week because America’s boiling racism and militarization are deadly for black people: a policy memo to members of Congress on accelerating offshore wind energy development in U.S. waters; the introduction to my book on climate solutions; a presentation for a powerful corporation on how technology can advance ocean-climate solutions; a grant proposal to fund a network of women climate leaders; a fact check of a big-budget film script about ocean-climate themes, planting vegetables with my mother in our climate victory garden.”
https://www.facebook.com/2476002272417424/posts/4725559894128306

' Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, policy advisor, and Brooklyn native. She is founder and CEO of the consultancy Ocean Collectiv, founder of the non-profit think tank Urban Ocean Lab and co-editor of the forthcoming anthology "All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis." '
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/03/im-black-climate-scientist-racism-derails-our-efforts-save-planet

Kanyon Consulting LLC writes,

' The person who laid this out, Seerut K. Chawla (IG: @seerutkchawla-- see also the center of the slides), she deserves the Nobel Prize for this. It is simple, but I don’t think people know this is what they are doing. And the effects of some of these can be quite devastating. Being an Authentic Ally is not easy I am sure but neither is being a POC. We welcome all of those willing to do the work. 🙏🏽🙏🏽

#WhiteSpirituality #WhiteFragility #privilege #allyship #weaponization #weaponizedfragility #performativeallyship #authenticallyship '

https://www.facebook.com/2476002272417424/posts/4735796999771262

https://t.me/s/IntuitivePublicEarth/1337

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' "Ultimately our work as Indigenous researchers is not primarily a matter of convincing non-Indigenous peoples of our right to exist as Indigenous peoples nor of convincing them of the worth of our ways and of our scholarship, although such resistance to colonialism certainly matters. Rather, our task is to produce knowledge that makes sense in terms of our lived realities, experiences and challenges. Research must be of practical value first and foremost to our communities. Any other considerations of research are simply secondary to this primary concern for us. In other words, we are not ‘doing’ social science for the sake of doing social science but as part of our struggles to decolonize our existence and move towards liberation."

-Aileen Moreton-Robinson, George Sefa Dei and Makere Stewart-Harawira, in "Unspeakable Things: Indigenous Research and Social Sciences."